Sustaining the Drive to Overcome the Global Impact of Neglected Tropical Diseases : Second WHO Report on Neglected Tropical Diseases.

Sustaining the Drive to Overcome the Global Impact of Neglected Tropical Diseases : Second WHO Report on Neglected Tropical Diseases.

The second WHO report on neglected tropical diseases builds on the growing sense of optimismgenerated by the 2012 publication of the WHO Roadmap. Commitments on thepart of ministries of health in endemic countries global health initiatives fundingagencies and philanthropists have escalated since 201...

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Main Author: Organization, World Health
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Geneva : World Health Organization, 2013.
©2013
Subjects:
Tropical medicine.
Communicable diseases > Prevention.
Parasitic diseases.
MEDICAL > Pharmacology.
Communicable diseases > Prevention
Parasitic diseases
Tropical medicine
Developing countries.
Developing countries
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Contents; FOREWORD BY THE DIRECTOR-GENERAL OF THE WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; SUMMARY; 1 THE GLOBAL PUBLIC-HEALTH AGENDA NOW EMBRACES NEGLECTED TROPICAL DISEASES; 1.1 Recent developments in prevention and control; 1.2 The roadmap and the London declaration; 1.3 Opportunities for public-health programmes; 1.4 Costs of expanding activities; 1.5 WHO and the roadmap's targets; REFERENCES; 2 REACHING THE ROADMAP'S TARGETS; 2.1 Practical definitions of eradication, elimination and control; 2.2 Obstacles and risks to achieving targets; 2.2.1 Conflicts and population displacement
  • 2.2.2 Population growth2.2.3 Vector control; 2.2.4 Resistance to medicines and pesticides; 2.2.5 Insufficient capacity for scaling up; 2.2.6 Expectations overtaking science; 2.2.7 Inadequate support for research; 2.2.8 Climate change; REFERENCES; 3 DISEASES; REFERENCES; WOMEN, CHILDREN AND NEGLECTED TROPICAL DISEASES; Biological consequences; Sociocultural consequences; Stigma; REFERENCES; 3.1 Dengue; Introduction; Distribution; Impact; Strategy (roadmap targets and milestones); REFERENCES; 3.2 Rabies; Introduction; Distribution; Impact; Strategy (roadmap targets and milestones); REFERENCES
  • 3.3 TrachomaIntroduction; Distribution; Impact; Strategy (roadmap targets and milestones); REFERENCES; 3.4 Buruli ulcer; Introduction; Distribution; Impact; Strategy (roadmap targets and milestones); REFERENCES; 3.5 Endemic treponematoses; Introduction; Distribution; Impact; Strategy (roadmap targets and milestones); REFERENCES; 3.6 Leprosy; Introduction; Distribution; Impact; Strategy (roadmap targets and milestones); REFERENCES; 3.7 Chagas disease; Introduction; Distribution; Impact; Strategy (roadmap targets and milestones); REFERENCES; 3.8 Human African trypanosomiasis (sleeping sickness)
  • IntroductionDistribution; Impact; Strategy (roadmap targets and milestones); REFERENCES; 3.9 Leishmaniases; Introduction; Distribution; Impact; Strategy (roadmap targets and milestones); REFERENCES; 3.10 Taeniasis/cysticercosis; Introduction; Distribution; Impact; Strategy (roadmap targets and milestones); REFERENCES; 3.11 Dracunculiasis (guinea-worm disease); Introduction; Distribution; Impact; Strategy (roadmap targets and milestones); REFERENCES; 3.12 Echinococcosis; Introduction; Distribution; Impact; Strategy (roadmap targets and milestones); REFERENCES; 3.13 Foodborne trematodiases
  • IntroductionDistribution; Strategy (roadmap targets and milestones); REFERENCES; 3.14 Lymphatic filariasis; Introduction; Distribution; Impact; Strategy (roadmap targets and milestones); REFERENCES; 3.15 Onchocerciasis (river blindness); Introduction; Distribution; Impact; Strategy (roadmap targets and milestones); REFERENCES; 3.16 Schistosomiasis; Introduction; Distribution; Impact; Strategy (roadmap targets and milestones); REFERENCES; 3.17 Soil-transmitted helminthiases; Introduction; Distribution; Impact; Strategy (roadmap targets and milestones); REFERENCES

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